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Moral Equivalence: Amnesty blasts Israel, Palestinian violations
JPost Reg Req’d - AI loses all sense of morality
Amnesty International issued a statement on the third anniversary of the outbreak of the Al Aqsa intifada, accusing both sides of wanton killing and claiming that all the peace initiatives so far have failed because they ignored human rights abuses.
Condemned the killing of Paleo "collaborators" lately? Paleo children used as human shields? Storing of weapons and bomb factories in civilan residences? Thought not
According to Amnesty International, of the more than 2,200 Palestinians who have been killed over the past three years, 400 were children, while of 800 Israelis killed, 100 were children. Tens of thousands of civilians have been wounded, and many of them have been maimed for life.
400 Paleo "children"? Molotov and rock throwers as old as 18? I bet
"The vast majority of those killed and injured on both sides have been unarmed civilians and bystanders," wrote Amnesty. "Both sides have knowingly targeted civilians and shown utter disregard for the most basic principles of human rights and humanitarian law." The human rights organization charged that both sides were equally to blame for the civilian casualties.
make me ill
"While claiming that it seeks to avoid harming the Palestinian population, the Israeli army tanks and aircraft continue to shell densely populated Palestinian refugee camps and residential areas, knowing that such reckless fire will cause heavy civilian casualties," wrote Amnesty International. "Palestinian armed groups, for their part, openly proclaim their determination to kill Israeli civilians. Suicide bombings and other attacks on buses and other public places carried out by Palestinian groups, including the armed wing of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, deliberately aim to kill as many Israeli civilians as possible.
Thereby making them identical with the Israelis, who... ummm... don't.
Amnesty International repeated its charges that the IDF commits a wide range of other human rights abuses. These include "the destruction of vast areas of cultivated land, factories, workshops and other private and public properties and stringent restrictions on the movement of Palestinians within the Occupied Territories [which] impose insurmountable obstacles on daily activities. Hundreds of checkpoints, closures and curfews make going to school, to work, for medical care or to visit relatives, burdensome if at all possible."
They kinda put a crimp in the movement of explosives, too...
The statement also criticized the separation barrier currently under construction by the Defense Ministry, which "cuts off Palestinian towns and villages from each other and/or their land and essential services."
and cuts them off from their intended targets - Israeli civilians
Posted by: Frank G 2003-09-30
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=19260